18 must-read middle grade books like Ragweed and Poppy by Avi

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Ragweed and Poppy

By: Avi

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The first new book about Poppy in more than ten years, from Newbery Medal-winning author Avi with i…

If you liked the middle grade plot in Ragweed and Poppy by Avi , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Tuesdays at the Castle (Castle Glower, #1) by Jessica Day George

1. Tuesdays at the Castle (Castle Glower, #1)

By: Jessica Day George

4.11

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

Tuesdays at Castle Glower are Princess Celie's favorite days. That's because on Tuesdays the castle… read more

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  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
"How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia." "And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin for days."

-Jessica Day George, Tuesdays at the Castle (Castle Glower, #1)

Cover of The Hidden Flame (Acts of Faith, #2) by Davis Bunn, Janette Oke

2. The Hidden Flame (Acts of Faith, #2)

By: Davis Bunn , Janette Oke

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Abigail loses everything and is left with little promise of a normal life. When she discovers the M… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Three Tales Of My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett, Ruth Chrisman Gannett

3. Three Tales Of My Father's Dragon

By: Ruth Stiles Gannett , Ruth Chrisman Gannett

4.33

Format: 268 pages,

My Father's Dragon, Elmer And The Dragon, The Dragons Of Blueland Also includes an introduction by … read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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4. The Unhurried Homeschooler: A Simple, Mercifully Short Book on Homeschooling

By: Durenda Wilson

4.53

Format: None pages,

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5. Audrey

By: Dan Bar-el

2.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Audrey is a cow with poetry in her blood, who yearns for the greener pastures beyond Bittersweet Fa… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Stuart Little by E.B. White, Garth Williams

6. Stuart Little

By: E.B. White , Garth Williams

3.90

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

E.B. White's classic novel about one small mouse on a very big adventure! Stuart Little is no o… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
"Well,"

-E.B. White, Stuart Little

"Very fine law,"

-E.B. White, Stuart Little

"(Not every doctor can look into a mouse's ear without laughing)"

-E.B. White, Stuart Little

"A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a note of music, and the way the back of a baby’s neck smells if it’s mother keeps it tidy,"

-E.B. White, Stuart Little

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7. The Trumpet of the Swan

By: E.B. White , Fred Marcellino

4.10

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Generations have grown up with E. B. White's classic novels. One of his best-loved books, The Trump… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
"When in love, one must take risks."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

"Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

"Besides, my life is a catastrophe. It's a catastrophe to be without a voice."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

"In almost everyone's life there is one event that changes the whole course of his existence."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

8. The Terrible Two (The Terrible Two, #1)

By: Mac Barnett , Jory John , Kevin Cornell

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Miles Murphy is not happy to be moving to Yawnee Valley, a sleepy town that's famous for one thing … read more

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9. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

By: Kate DiCamillo , K.G. Campbell

3.88

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequence… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
"So many miracles have not yet happened."

-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

"She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble"

-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

"I love your round head, the brilliant green, the watching blue, these letters, this world, you. I am very, very hungry."

-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

"He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true."

-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

10. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

By: Jean Lee Latham

5.00

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to … read more

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11. The Book of Boy

By: Catherine Gilbert Murdock

3.83

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Boy has always been relegated to the outskirts of his small village. With a large hump on his back,… read more

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12. Brian's Return (Brian's Saga, #4)

By: Gary Paulsen

3.00

Format: 96 pages,

As millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson survived alone… read more

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13. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, #1)

By: Robert C. O'Brien

3.83

Format: 35 pages, Paperback

Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, must move her family to their summer quarter… read more

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14. Five Children and It (Five Children, #1)

By: E. Nesbit

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy, a psammead, in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will … read more

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15. Runaway Ralph (Ralph S. Mouse, #2)

By: Beverly Cleary

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

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16. The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Ralph S. Mouse, #1)

By: Tracy Dockray , Beverly Cleary , Louis Darling

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Pb-pb-b-b-b. Pb-pb-b-b-b." With these magic vocables, Ralph the mouse revs up a dream come true--h… read more

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17. The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot, #1)

By: Peter Brown

4.05

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild… read more

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18. Misty of Chincoteague (Misty, #1)

By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

On an island off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. Amo… read more

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19. The Lost Library

By: Rebecca Stead

4.14

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

A little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a myst… read more

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  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
"But aren’t “parents"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"That delicious book smell, his heart said."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Being a Great Reader means feeling something about books."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Head high, my dear! Eyes up! Take your place in the world!"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

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20. The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

By: Sarah Mackenzie

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading alou… read more

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  • childrens
  • audiobook
"What better education can we offer our children than the shaping of their hearts to love others as we have been loved by God ourselves?"

-Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

"It is tempting to idolize certain aspects of education. We value good grades, high test scores, elite college degrees, and lucrative careers. But out obsession keeps us from remembering what educatio…"

-Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

"Truth rises above literal facts... stories, especially fictional ones have the power to speak to the hearts of readers in a profound and lasting way. "Story has been the vehicle for truth for as long…"

-Sarah Mackenzie, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

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21. The Last (Endling, #1)

By: Katherine Applegate

4.20

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller from the beloved author of the action-packed Animorphs series and the a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
Cover of The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #4) by Trenton Lee Stewart

22. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #4)

By: Trenton Lee Stewart

4.14

Format: 391 pages, None

The brilliant and beloved gang from the New York Times bestselling series is back! The Mysterious… read more

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  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
"There are empty rooms, and then there are rooms that feel crowded, corner to corner, with absence."

-Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #4)

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23. Saving Winslow

By: Sharon Creech

3.86

Format: 176 pages, ebook

About a young boy who befriends an ailing newborn donkey and nurses him back to health. Louie d… read more

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  • audiobook
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue (The Vanderbeekers, #3) by Karina Yan Glaser

24. The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue (The Vanderbeekers, #3)

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.45

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

Harlem’s favorite family returns in the third installment in the Vanderbeerkers series! In To the R… read more

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  • audiobook
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"The universe is so big, much bigger than you and me and bigger than any of our mistakes. There are always opportunities to forgive and be forgiven."

-Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue (The Vanderbeekers, #3)

Cover of A Whale of the Wild (Voice of the Wilderness #2) by Rosanne Parry

25. A Whale of the Wild (Voice of the Wilderness #2)

By: Rosanne Parry

4.14

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

In the stand-alone companion to the New York Times–bestselling A Wolf Called Wander, a young orca w… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Black Star of Kingston (Green Ember Old Natalia, #1) by S.D.   Smith

26. The Black Star of Kingston (Green Ember Old Natalia, #1)

By: S.D. Smith

4.28

Format: 192 pages, Perfect Paperback

Over a century before Heather and Picket's adventures in The Green Ember, a displaced community fig… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I am afraid... But I keep on loving what's on the other side of this fight, and that will have to make me brave."

-S.D. Smith, The Black Star of Kingston (Green Ember Old Natalia, #1)

"Being a ruler is, contrary to popular notions, a calling of self-sacrifice. That is, if one wants to be a good ruler."

-S.D. Smith, The Black Star of Kingston (Green Ember Old Natalia, #1)

Cover of Ember’s End (The Green Ember, #4) by S.D.   Smith

27. Ember’s End (The Green Ember, #4)

By: S.D. Smith

4.61

Format: 416 pages, Perfect Paperback

The end is here. Heather and Picket face off for the last time with their tyrannical foes in this f… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It's like being inside a perfect poem, I think."

-S.D. Smith, Ember’s End (The Green Ember, #4)

"It's always hard to forgive, but it's never not worth it."

-S.D. Smith, Ember’s End (The Green Ember, #4)

"Dear Kyle, you are the great nitwit of the world. Love, Jo Shanks."

-S.D. Smith, Ember’s End (The Green Ember, #4)

"We were family then. We are family now. Won't you come home again?"

-S.D. Smith, Ember’s End (The Green Ember, #4)

Cover of Just Beyond the Very, Very Far North by Dan Bar-el

28. Just Beyond the Very, Very Far North

By: Dan Bar-el

4.40

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The adventures of Duane the polar bear and his arctic friends continue in this charming sequel to t… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
Cover of The Lifters by Dave Eggers

29. The Lifters

By: Dave Eggers

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Audio CD

Journey to an underground world where adventure awaits and heroes are made in this middle grade nov… read more

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  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
"A promise is like the earth underneath us. It must be solid. How can we walk, and run, and live and laugh, when we can't count on the ground beneath us. And so it is with promises. They keep us uprig…"

-Dave Eggers, The Lifters

"In the lives of humans, there are moments that feel very much apart from the majority of moments. That is, in any life there are many hundreds of thousands of hours and millions of minutes, and thoug…"

-Dave Eggers, The Lifters

Cover of Ragweed and Poppy by Avi

30. Ragweed and Poppy

By: Avi

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The first new book about Poppy in more than ten years, from Newbery Medal-winning author Avi with i… read more

Similar categories in Avi's Ragweed and Poppy book and Avi's Ragweed and Poppy

  • audiobook
  • chapter books
  • 2nd grade
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
Cover of A Sprinkle of Spirits (Love Sugar Magic, #2) by Anna Meriano

31. A Sprinkle of Spirits (Love Sugar Magic, #2)

By: Anna Meriano

4.27

Format: 310 pages, ebook

Leonora Logroño has finally been introduced to her family’s bakery bruja magic—but that doesn’t mea… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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Transform Your Habits

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Jessica Day George

4.11

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4.27

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